If you're thinking of setting up a forum for your Website, you need not start from scratch. The open-source script, phpBB, can easily be installed on most Web servers. This article will describe how to do it right, from downloading through to customisation.

This is a three-part tutorial that shows you hwo to make a comment/discussion board using PHP and mySQL. There are three files: comments.php, which displays the comments, commentadd.php, which processes the comment, and commentform.html

Most people are familiar with doing searches on Google, and how Google formats search results. First, the search criteria text appears in a bold font. Second, the text of the search results ends with an ellipsis (...) to let the user know that there is more information where that came from. These little UI features make it easy for readers to find what they are looking for.

A search engine is built over an index that reduces words from the text content into "stems" to make them searchable, and it must ignore "stop words". Learn how to make a professional search engine in PHP, without dependence to any database system, and a relevancy rating of the results.